News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

A submarine of the Baltic fleet went to sea to work out its tasks.

The project 877 (Varshavyanka) submarines are the quietest Russian submarines, which is explained by the absence of noisy power units, a verified streamlined shape and a special hydroacoustic coating of the hull.

the Baltic fleet forms a new division in response to the build-up of NATO troops

Moscow will respond to NATO actions on the border with the Kaliningrad region, the Russian military warns. The Russian Federation pays attention to the strengthening of the military-political bloc's presence in this region. Experts and the media have repeatedly predicted a possible conflict in this region.

Russian defense companies Almaz-Antey and USC entered the list of 25 world military-industrial leaders, despite a decline in revenue in 2019, according to a report published on Monday by the Stockholm international peace research Institute (SIPRI).

The fourth serial Russian nuclear icebreaker "Chukotka" project 22220 will be built at the "Baltic plant" in St. Petersburg on December 18, the company said.

In the southern military district (SE), military tests of a new mobile laboratory for measuring equipment (PLIT-A2-4/4M) have been completed, and deliveries of these complexes to the Armed Forces will begin in 2021.

mass media: China replaced Russian d-30KP-2 engines with more powerful WS-20

China has replaced the Russian-made d-30KP-2 turbofan engines with its own WS-20. According to American media, Chinese engines will be more powerful than those that were installed earlier. Experts believe that in this regard, the military transport aircraft of the people's Republic of China Y-20 will be remotorized in the near future.

The newest British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales worth 3.1 billion pounds (more than 300 billion rubles) will go for a long repair after water enters the engine room. This is reported by the Sun, citing sources.

The national Commission on Military Aviation Safety of the United States (National Commission on Military Aviation Safety) summed up the results of non-combat losses of American military aviation in the period from 2013 to December 1, 2020. According to the report, 186 aircraft and 224 pilots were lost during this period.

The government of the Russian Federation has approved a list of modern technologies that will be used to conclude special investment contracts (SPIC).

Chinese physicists have assembled an optical circuit that demonstrates quantum superiority. They chose boson sampling on a 100-mode optical interferometer as a task to demonstrate the speed of a quantum device. According to the authors ' calculations, their quantum computer copes with this task 100 trillion times faster than a conventional supercomputer. The work is published in the journal Science.

the Expert spoke about the possible consequences of theft of equipment from the Il-80 Vzpu

At the Taganrog-Yuzhny airfield, an Il-80 Vzpu (air control point of the Russian armed forces) was robbed, which is also called the "doomsday plane". The airship arrived in this city for planned work on modernization and extension of the resource. The military observer of the Newspaper tells about the consequences that the incident can lead to.Ru " Mikhail Khodarenok.

The US Navy was assigned the 13th Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) of the Independence — type USS Mobile (LCS 26). Soon he should begin his service.

Who are they competing with?

On November 10, the South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) launched the non – nuclear submarine Ahn Moo-the second boat of the first sub-series of the KSS III program. It marks the transition to serial construction of a new generation of submarines.

Why EW funds did not affect the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh

Fighting has stopped in Nagorno-Karabakh, and Russian peacekeeping forces have been deployed to the Republic. Currently, Azerbaijan and Armenia are engaged in the separation of forces and means, the transfer of territory, as well as mine clearance and search for bodies of the dead. Over the past three weeks, there has not been a single armed clash between the Armenian and Azerbaijani military.

Calculations of anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMS) S-400 "Triumph" of the Samara regiment of air defense of the Central military district (CVO) performed the first combat launches at the Kapustin Yar range in the Astrakhan region after rearmament, the press service of the CVO reported on Friday.

Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of Roscosmos, said that all three Gonets-M communications satellites launched on Thursday were put into their calculated orbits and taken over.

The Soyuz-2.1 b rocket with Gonets-M communications satellites and a device in the interests of the Ministry of defense launched from the launch pad N 3 of the Plesetsk State test cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. The launch was carried out by a combat crew of the VKS Space forces.

30 years ago, the Soviet heavy military transport aircraft An-124 "Ruslan" completed its round-the-world flight across two poles. This flight was included in the Guinness Book of records as the longest and longest-in 72 hours and 16 minutes of flight time, the plane covered 50005 kilometers. In addition, 7 world and 10 all-Union records were set during the flight.

The Israeli army actively uses Caterpillar D9 bulldozers in its combat operations. These tracked vehicles are used for various engineering tasks: clearing paths for Merkava tanks, destroying various fortifications, and clearing mines.

The crew of the Baltic fleet's patrol ship Yaroslav the Wise conducted routine firing exercises at combat training ranges in the Baltic sea off the coast of the Kaliningrad region.

The sappers of the International mine action center of the Russian defense Ministry located in Nagorno-Karabakh have started using special equipment to clear the territory.

"for the First time, the Uran-6 multi-functional robotic complex was used to clear the area of unexploded ordnance and explosive objects, with the help of which about 8 hectares of land were surveyed in the area of the settlement of Khojaly," our military Department reported on Saturday.